Alfie here, hello! I came across Ben’s project to travel on all London bus routes back when we were researching the Bus-Tops requirements in early 2010. I immediately loved the project – it’s an odd thing to do, sure, but what I loved was the journey implicit, whatever that might come to be; drunks shouting [...]
April 2, 2012
And that is the tile of Jasmina Cibic’s work for Bus-Tops starting today and running throughout April. By stripping away the correlation of artistic quality and individual identity, Cibic is using the Bus-Tops screens as a tongue-in-cheek comment on the nature of the international art system. The work is also the conceptual resolution to her core [...]
March 12, 2012
A nice close up rendition of recent work on Bus-Tops: All of the Glitch mini-season art: Ian Monroe’s ‘Equivalencies’:
March 8, 2012
The Generative Art/Processing competition in Feb/March 2012 was run in collaboration with Bus-Tops pals OpenProcessing and saw dozens of amazing entries. Here are the top ten as voted for by members of OpenProcessing:
March 2, 2012
Latest bits and bobs: We had some deep snow at the start of the month which made the red glow of the screens look very beautiful. We celebrated Glitch Art with intriguing works that really make you look twice. Pattern Runners by Pixelnoizz. Our artist for February Ian Monroe created a series of Equivalencies, exploring Double Decker Buses, blue whales and [...]
February 28, 2012
There have been loads of excellent submissions to the Processing pool over at our friends OpenProcessing. We’re really excited about the Processing Season launching on the 1st of March at Bus-Tops, celebrating the art of code. Today is the last day you can get yours in for a chance for your work to be seen on Bus-Tops [...]
February 16, 2012
You walk on the streets of London. You go about your business as usual, your head is so filled with whatever preoccupations you have for the day that you barely notice when you get on the bus. (Glitched billboard by chr15.eat0n) Once you’ve taken your seat you look out the window and a bright colored light catches [...]
April 18, 2012